The Copenhagen Post Mar 23-29

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Denmark – they speak Dutch there, right?

Danish activist enters fifth week of hunger strike

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23 - 29 March 2012 | Vol 15 Issue 12

Get in gear as top UK show rolls into town

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Denmark’s only English-language newspaper | cphpost.dk PETER STANNERS

NEWS

Security in focus following violent attacks at job centre and hospital

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What’s in a gender? Transgendered people fight for the right to give birth, and politicians largely support their cause

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Against the grain Anders Samuelsen and the Liberal Alliance go where few Danish politicians dare

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See a full page of photos from the three-legged St Patrick’s Day race in the heart of the city

11 CULTURE

Noma robbed, many say Danish food critics argue that restaurant’s failure to get a third Michelin star was political

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All signs point to reduced terrorism risk Threat against Denmark may be decreasing as al-Qaeda turns local, but homegrown terrorists remain a potential danger

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ECENT intelligence information suggests that the threat of terrorism in Denmark may begin to drop in a few years. The country has been on a high terror alert status for more than a decade, and although defence intelligence agency FE says Denmark remains a high priority among terrorists, the weakening of the terrorist network al-Qaeda may reduce potential threats. “There is no doubt that al-Qaeda’s

senior leadership in Pakistan is under ex- Denmark high. For example, hometreme pressure and that the group is not grown terrorists – people born or raised as effective as it was even a few years ago,” in the country they target – could desaid FE director Thomas Ahrenkiel. velop extreme views and decide to carry “Our assessment is that al-Qaeda out attacks. will become less centralised and atAfter the 9/11 attacks brought the tacks will mainly occur locally in places potential for terrorism on Western soil like Somalia and Yemen. As al-Qaeda into full view, Denmark found itself a becomes even less focused, the threat target during the dispute over the pubagainst Denmark will lessen.” lication of the Mohammed cartoons in Ahrenkiel suggested that the devel- 2005, and even more with their republiopment could take as long as five years, cation in 2008. For that reason, accordbut that he would not be surprised if ing to FE, the danger of terrorist activDenmark was able to reduce its terror ity against the newspaper could remain alert status sooner. high, even if the general threat level falls. He warned though that other fac- a personal “Some point to the Danish forces in Organise meeting tors could keep the threat of terror in Afghanistan as the cause of the threat to

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